The Eleventh Circuit’s recent opinion in No. 25-12239 is now available, and while the significance of any appellate ruling ultimately turns on its specific holdings, this decision is worth attention for what it says about the court’s approach to appellate review and issue framing. For litigators practicing in federal court, Eleventh Circuit opinions often carry practical guidance well beyond the…
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The promise of CLM, without the complexity.MIAMI, FL — November 2026 — SimpleDocs, an award-winning provider of AI-powered contract solutions and parent company of Law Insider, today announced the launch of SimpleDocs 360, a comprehensive AI-native contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform designed to simplify how organizations manage contracts.For years, traditional CLM systems have promised to streamline contracting, but…
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FileTrail’s records management workflows complement filerskeepers’ legal retention intelligence to help organizations put retention requirements into practice CHICAGO and AMSTERDAM – Nov. 5, 2026 – Litera, the legal AI platform provider that best unifies the practice and business of law, announced a partnership with filerskeepers, a provider of global data retention intelligence and services, to help organizations…
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A new inter partes review proceeding, IPR2027-00030, was filed at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board on October 30, 2026, under the caption Shining 3D Tech Co., Ltd. As of the current docket entry, the publicly available case title identifies Shining 3D Tech Co., Ltd., but practitioners should watch for additional filings that clarify the full party alignment,…
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As I have reported here, the legal technology company Clio is making a big push into the judiciary. It wants to develop AI tools to make judges’ jobs easier, and it has even trademarked the phrase “judiciary-grade AI.”To that end, Clio has made two key hires: Pablo Arredondo, the Casetext cofounder who joined Clio as senior vice president, judiciary, to…
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Law students have always had to make strong first impressions when interviewing for summer positions. Now, with many law firms moving up the timeline for hiring 2L summer associates, those first impressions become even more crucial earlier in students’ law school careers.
We asked three Illinois law school professionals for advice for law students on navigating professional…
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Thursday’s legal news cycle underscored how quickly the risk environment can shift for companies, litigators, and compliance teams. According to today’s reporting, seven major developments stood out across court rulings, criminal matters, enforcement activity, and broader institutional changes affecting the legal system.

What makes this collection of stories notable is not simply volume, but range. On one end are decisions…
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A federal appeals court has revived the jury’s antitrust verdict in the long-running NFL “Sunday Ticket” litigation, putting one of the most closely watched sports-antitrust battles back on center stage. The decision restores significant leverage to the subscriber plaintiffs after the trial court had set aside the jury’s damages award, and it reopens the prospect of massive exposure tied to…
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Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York announced that Daniel Sikkema has been sentenced to life in prison for the January 14, 2024 murder of his husband, prominent art dealer Brent Sikkema, in Rio de Janeiro. U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos imposed the sentence in a case that drew significant public attention because of the victim’s profile, the…
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Key points:

  • One in five Illinois lawyers rated their mental health as fair or poor in a new study sponsored by the Illinois Lawyers’ Assistance Program
  • Of this number, 32% said they had experienced suicidal ideation in the past year
  • 66% of lawyers said their workplaces negatively impact their mental and physical health and

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I’m always interested in Clio’s Legal Trends Report that comes out at its vendor’s conference. Clio has lots of data from its customers and otherwise and the Report is always informative. What stood out this year was counterintuitively, billable hours are up not down in the age of AI. I had been thinking that hours should be going down. So I…
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